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Why Ferguson?

Posted on | November 25, 2014 | 123 Comments

Riot police on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.

“Fox and CNN viewers witnessed a police car, a car dealership and the local Little Caesar’s Pizza set ablaze, a beauticians’ store looted, a McDonald’s with its windows smashed — and ‘Full circle: Liquor store Michael Brown accused of robbing being looted.'”
— Ed Driscoll, Nov. 24, 2014

The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, returned a “no bill” against police officer Darren Wilson, and devotees of the slain Saint Michael Brown — a martyr to the Holy Cause, in the eyes of idolators who worship at the Civil Rights altar — engaged in a ritual riot, while the High Priest of Social Justice, Barack Obama, gave a ceremonial press statement.

Why?

That question goes unasked in the wall-to-wall cable TV news coverage. Because I’m up to my eyeballs in a book project, I don’t have time to pay attention to every Major National News Story that comes along, but I’ve spent the past three months wondering, “Why Ferguson?”

It’s like Trayvon Martin. The basic idea of that drama was, a black teenager got shot by a white man and this was an injustice.

Of course, black teenagers are shot to death on a daily basis in America, but because they are usually killed by other black teenagers, there is nothing in the death of a young hoodlum of interest to the Civil Rights cult unless the shooter is white (or at least half-white, as it turned out that George Zimmerman’s mother is Hispanic).  This cultural phenomenon is so obvious, one hesitates to state it so explicitly: “Civil Rights” has been re-defined to mean “whatever gives black people an excuse to hate white people more than they already do,” and the journalistic establishment is committed to inciting such hatred.

A white person has to be pretty goddamned privileged, if I may borrow that phrase from the social-justice theorists, to pander to professional grievance-mongers in such a blatantly irresponsible manner. You need a degree from an elite college, and a job in media or academia that pays you a handsome salary, in order to be the kind of white person who believes that stoking black anger is beneficial to society, and yet it is clear that many white liberals do believe this.

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
– William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)

Excuse me for re-using that Buckley quote, but we cannot understand liberalism without recognizing it as an effect of indoctrination.

Why do liberals “think” the way they do? In fact, they don’t actually think at all. Our elite are utterly irrational, like the monkey in the psych lab experiment, pushing the button in the Skinner box to get another hit of cocaine, heedless of the consequences. Our current system of education does not teach facts and skills, it teaches attitudes, and one of the prescribed attitudes is: Black, good; white, bad.

Liberalism involves a crude Manichean worldview:

Women, good; men, bad.
Youth, good; adults, bad.
Atheists, good; Christians, bad.
Hedonism, good; responsibility, bad.
Abortion, good; motherhood, bad.
Sodomy, good; normal sex, bad.
Wilderness, good; carbon energy, bad.
Labor unions, good; entrepreneurs, bad.
Government, good; corporations, bad.
Foreigners, good; Americans, bad.
Democrats, good; Republicans, bad.

It is this last distinction — blind loyalty to the Democrat Party — which is the ultimate goal of the attitudinal training we now call “education.” Our government school system annually hands diplomas to teenagers who can barely even read their diplomas, and the bureaucratic mediocrities who run the system don’t care that their “education” teaches kids nothing useful, so long as the student learns to vote Democrat.

What did public schools teach Michael Brown? That it is entirely acceptable to get high on dope, steal from a local convenience store and, when apprehended by a police officer, to resist a lawful arrest:

“The witness’s account of the unarmed Brown
charging Wilson — even after he had been shot in the
hand during a struggle at the cop’s patrol car —
supports the officer’s contention that he fired
a series of shots as Brown bore down on him.”

The governor of Missouri is a Democrat. The mayor of Ferguson is a Democrat. The prosecuting attorney in the case is a Democrat. I’m not sure there were any Republicans on the grand jury that returned a no-bill against Officer Wilson. Yet the media manipulators who are stoking racial rage over this story are doing so with the certain knowledge that, by fomenting anti-white resentments, they are serving the political interests of the Democrat Party.

That’s all it is, nothing more.  They should be ashamed of themselves, but if liberals had any sense of shame they would not be liberals.





 

 

 

Category: Crime, Liberals, Media Bias, Missouri, Racism

Comments

123 Responses to “Why Ferguson?”

  1. Kirby McCain
    November 25th, 2014 @ 8:59 pm

    The Haitian genocide of 1804, good?

  2. Proof
    November 25th, 2014 @ 10:17 pm

    I found the original, unretouched photo of Ferguson:

  3. RKae
    November 25th, 2014 @ 10:26 pm

    And those same people who think that crack was intentionally let loose in the black neighborhoods got all hot under the collar when drug laws got stiff. They said that prosecuting crack dealers was just a way to imprison the black man.

    So is crack good or bad? They can’t tell you.

  4. trangbang68
    November 25th, 2014 @ 10:28 pm

    Why Ferguson, indeed? I lay this (and the urban unrest ahead) at the feet of the race baiters, poverty pimps, class envy preachers who constantly stir the pot for either monetary or political gain.
    Obama, Holder, the wretched fake preachers, the leftist rabble rousers are pulling the house down on our heads.

  5. Daniel Freeman
    November 25th, 2014 @ 10:37 pm

    What if a news outlet devoted equal time to every killing in America, regardless of circumstances? And once the event met its quota, it would never be mentioned again as news, although they could still report on other peoples’ politicization of the news. What would the “people what got killed by someone else yesterday” segment look like on an average day, and would it tend to inflame or reduce tensions resulting from the politicized events?

  6. Daniel Freeman
    November 25th, 2014 @ 10:45 pm

    Weren’t the brownshirts scapegoated? Do the “brownskirt” SJWs really expect to fare better in victory? I think they should hope for defeat.

  7. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:02 pm

    The higher level of anger among blacks (I refuse to call it a “community” because it isn’t) is not justified. What it does reflect is the agitprop pushed by the poverty pimps and falsely labeled “civil rights” leaders.

  8. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:05 pm

    CNN, race baiting. Why doesn’t that surprise me?

    Chris Wallace, however, is a bad sign, particularly given he tried to nail Cruz. I guess Wallace is tired of living in his father’s dishonest shadow and he wants to make his own dishonest shadow.

  9. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:08 pm

    Moynihan had some brains, but not much. George Shultz nailed him during one flight when they were both in the Nixon Administration. Moynihan was just discovering what markets do in the drug trade, and Shultz snidely retorted “you’re learning.”

    I would have been quite embarrassed, but, like the typical libtard, Moynihan had no shame.

  10. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:12 pm

    As I recall, St Nick was not at Nicaea. He lived later. Nicaea was pretty peaceful since the Emperor actually presided over the council and delivered the canons of the Council. Constantine would have regarded such an assault as a deep affront.

    Another factor was the Church had not had worldly attitudes infiltrate to that extent. The Council of Ephesus, however, was a different matter.

  11. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm

    They always avoid reality when it’s not convenient.

  12. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:16 pm

    My son lives near Kansas City and has new black neighbors. He wants to sell and get away from them. KC is another potential pressure cooker.

  13. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:26 pm

    In 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12, Paul said,

    7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

    Ungodly people are already accepting tons of lies from political parties and government. It isn’t hard to believe that people will believe the guy who comes on a horse who claims to have all the answers and keep the gravy train on the tracks.

    He will, for a short bit, or at least seem to do so. But, when Christ returns to rule, that will be the end of that, and those that bought the lie will be cut off from the face of the earth forever.

    It was for good reason that both Jesus Christ and Paul used the phrase “be not deceived. Christ in Luke 21:8 and Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:9, 15:36 and Galatians 6:7. But, Satan is getting plenty of practice, and is already quite good at deception. When the Beast rises, and starts his song and dance, he’ll know exactly what to say to fool most of the world.

  14. Quartermaster
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:26 pm

    Proof is a well know “ist.” and that ain’t a German word either.

  15. theoldsargesays
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm

    ONLY in the eyes of the law…technically.

    In the eyes of special interest groups, perpetual victims, Democrats, black folk, lgbtxy’s, progressives and msm outlets you’re only allowed to defend yourself if you are a member of one of the above mentioned groups and are able to blame the supposed oppression of your great-great grand parents as having mentally scared you for life.

    If you are white and of European descent then although the law may technically let you off the hook, you have obviously been given preferential treatment by your fellow coconspirators and those same above mentioned groups will be screaming for your head.
    (And if unable to lynch you then they will burn , loot and cause any other mayhem they feel they are entitled to because that to them is justice.)

  16. theoldsargesays
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:38 pm

    I would tell you to ask Marion Barry but….

  17. theoldsargesays
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm

    I wonder if any of the other self-proclaimed black leadership in Congress or churches or civil rights organizations are questioning the Rev. Sharpton about breaking the law and owing millions of dollars in taxes and penalties or is it more convenient to ask how they too could get away with defrauding an entire race of people out of millions of dollars supposed financial support.

    I’m betting on the convenience angle myself.

  18. Nan
    November 25th, 2014 @ 11:58 pm

    Orthodox say he lived from 270-343 and was at the Council of Nicea; he was relieved of his bishopric briefly after slapping Arius as both Jesus and the Blessed Mother appeared and he was reinstated. Below is an icon commemorating the event.

  19. theoldsargesays
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:03 am

    Stop deflecting. We’re not supposed to be worrying
    about those thousands of murders every year- those lives are unimportant because …well just because!

    The only lost lives that are important are the one’s that get the race pimps on TV and able to extort “donations” from corporations and tourism destinations.

  20. theoldsargesays
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:08 am

    I lived in the Baltimore-D.C. area back in the 80s-90’s and an off trotted out excuse was that since no fun company’s are black owned then it’s white peoples fault that guns are making their way into black “communities” and causing all the deaths of young blacks.

    It’s always someone else’s fault ain’t it?

  21. theoldsargesays
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:08 am

    Might end up seeming like an eternity?

  22. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:12 am

    Looks like I got the time frame wrong. For some reason I was thinking he lived about 100 years later. I do seriously doubt he slapped Arius. I’m sure there were many who have liked to do so, but with Constantine watching, I seriously doubt it would have happened.

  23. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:14 am

    Barry would probably like at least a thimble full of water about now. In the end, however, God will judge, and I’m satisfied with that.

  24. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:14 am

    I don’t have to outrun the cannibals, just out run you.

  25. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:17 am

    Yep. For a 6 year old, it’s always “the devil made me do it.” I tried that when I was 5, and it didn’t work with either my 1st grade teacher, or my father. My father’s methods, however, taught me quite well how to remember the lesson.

    Intellectually and emotionally, those blacks are just what I was when I was 5.

  26. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:19 am

    The poverty pimps would like to repeat it here. The only drawback is then there’s no one to pay the taxes to provide welfare, and that’s just not right.

  27. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:21 am

    Frankly, we should bring back public hanging. Give ’em the attention they crave. Once. Too many of them are gallows bait anyway, and that’s the real tragedy.

  28. Fail Burton
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:26 am

    Why do that when you can pretend you and your children aren’t safe with odds the same as being struck by lightning – white lightning.

  29. theoldsargesays
    November 26th, 2014 @ 12:34 am

    Their victimhood is just a heck of a lot more easier for them to live with than the complexity of taking responsibility for one’s own life and the wellbeing of one’s own family.

    Some people would just rather “have-not” and blame it on someone else.

  30. M. Thompson
    November 26th, 2014 @ 1:11 am

    I recall some old stories about foolish groups…

  31. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 26th, 2014 @ 1:28 am

    True. Black community definitely exists on a smaller scale (depending where you look), but as a group it makes about as much sense as saying the “white community.”

  32. richard mcenroe
    November 26th, 2014 @ 1:57 am

    What did the militarization of the police have to do with the shooting of Michael Brown?

    The rioters protested the police showing up in protective gear, and demanded the police put it aside, committing vandalism and violence along the way.

    When the police set aside the equipment at the rioters’ demands, they “reached across the aisle” by burning the city down.

  33. richard mcenroe
    November 26th, 2014 @ 1:58 am

    And then there’s Shepherd Smith…

  34. richard mcenroe
    November 26th, 2014 @ 2:00 am

    That damn name made the Good Democrats nervous anyway.

    After all, they could never be sure…

  35. richard mcenroe
    November 26th, 2014 @ 2:01 am

    And a phone, and utilities and an EBT card that almost ALWAYS work…

  36. richard mcenroe
    November 26th, 2014 @ 2:01 am

    A theory advanced, I imagine, by someone who never watched BET…

  37. richard mcenroe
    November 26th, 2014 @ 2:02 am

    If you move away from the inner city to avoid its problems and its problems come with you, YOU are likely the problem…

  38. K-Bob
    November 26th, 2014 @ 3:50 am

    Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot are busy digging a new, lower level below the one for False Counselors. When barack makes his appearance, everyone else will get a ten minute break to laugh.

  39. K-Bob
    November 26th, 2014 @ 3:51 am

    Because they hate black people.

    Sharpton really, really hates black people.

  40. K-Bob
    November 26th, 2014 @ 3:55 am

    Sure. “Willfully.” Uh-huh.

    Hey, everyone knows you have to schedule a verdict release just around dusk on a week night when no playoffs are happening. Common sense, and probably a law or something.

    Sunday morning at 7am would be un-possible.

    Burning cars just don’t look as interesting in the glare of daylight.

    So there.

  41. K-Bob
    November 26th, 2014 @ 3:56 am

    Looks interesting.

  42. K-Bob
    November 26th, 2014 @ 3:57 am

    Last eaten, most tenderized.

  43. Adjoran
    November 26th, 2014 @ 4:53 am

    Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That . . .

  44. Adjoran
    November 26th, 2014 @ 4:58 am

    What distinguished Moynihan was his honesty. He was liberal and believed those policies would work – but if they didn’t, he wanted to know why and to stop doing things that made things worse. Which is why he was something of a pariah in his later years.

    And compared to modern Democrats, he was a freaking genius. But so is my dog.

  45. K-Bob
    November 26th, 2014 @ 5:39 am

    (This article was linked in the sidebar at Ace’s by RDBrewer.)

  46. RS
    November 26th, 2014 @ 9:06 am

    What distinguished Moynihan was his honesty.

    Bingo.

    He was one of the grown-ups in the party, whose departure–among others–sent me off the Dem plantation.

    (People forget, it was Moynihan who told Hillary Clinton that “HillaryCare” was a non-starter given its complexity and adverse economic effects.)

  47. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 9:51 am

    So would your pet Turtle if you had one. Come to think of it, your lamp would be too.

  48. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 9:53 am

    Or end up as Big Macs or Whoppers.

  49. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 9:55 am

    It was not brought up as applying to Ferguson. It is a general problem with the cops, but it doesn’t lead to every problem.

  50. Quartermaster
    November 26th, 2014 @ 9:56 am

    We could hope DC. They need to feel the sting of it themselves and mebbe they’ll wake up. I admit, however, given their belief in the vibrant’s victim status, the chances are vanishingly small.